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Livingstone's fruit bat
Why being “blind as a bat” is a myth
Mexican free-tailed bat
Bats: Roosting, hunting, and echolocation
leaf-nosed bat white-nose syndrome long-eared bat Insect predation epauletted fruit bat
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Lion (panthera leo)
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Bats. Megabat. Grey-headed flying fox. Pteropus poliocephalus. A pair of grey-headed flying foxes hanging from the ceiling of a cave in South Australia.
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cat. orange and white persian cat with long hair, snarl, growl, teeth
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Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.
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German machine gunners occupy a trench during World War I.
Weapons of World War I
The impeachment trial of Pres. Andrew Johnson, illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, March 28, 1868.
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Ruminant. Deer. Red deer. Cervus elaphus. Buck. Stag. Antlers.
9 of the World’s Deadliest Mammals
Lusitania sinking, illustration from The War of the Nations (New York), December 31, 1919. World War I, WWI. This image is one of three on the page. (See source file for the other two.)
7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks
Nazi Germany, Nazi SS troops marching with victory standards at the Party Day rally in Nuremberg, Germany, 1933. (Schutzstaffel, Nazi Party, Nurnberg)
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Mexican free-tailed bat
leaf-nosed bat
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Why being “blind as a bat” is a myth
Bats: Roosting, hunting, and echolocation
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